"We went under an overpass and all of the sudden it was like cars everywhere. It was like warfield," said Werner, whose husband pastors at a Big Rapids area church. "It all happened so fast."

Werner remembers hearing other cars crashing around her.

"That was awful," she said. "It was almost like gunfire. It was like 'bang, bang, bang,'" she said.

After their car stopped moving, others already outside of vehicles yelled for them to get out of their car for fear that other vehicles would plow into them. She and her injured husband managed to both get out, along with their two dogs.

A stranger helped care for the dogs in his car while Werner and her husband went to a hospital to check on possible rib injuries he may have suffered. He was later released from the hospital.